Wow: The last big jobs report before Election Day brought unadulterated excellent news. Year-over-year wage growth above 3 percent for the first time in nearly a decade. Payrolls adding 250,000 new jobs, well above expectations. Unemployment unchanged at 3.7 percent, a 49-year low — and the rate would have dropped,…

Democrats in two House races that remain too close to call in Orange County have gained substantial ground since the election on Tuesday, but tens of thousands of ballots have yet to be counted in each contest. The 2,682-vote lead that Democrat Harley Rouda established on election night over Republican…

The Trump super fan arrested for mailing pipe bombs to prominent Dems was a Jekyll and Hyde personality who bounced between bouts of rage, hate and flights of fancy, according to court records and those who knew him. Cesar Sayoc Jr. has spent a lifetime on the edge of reality,…

A senior Israeli special-ops officer and seven militants, including a Hamas commander, were killed during an apparent botched mission inside the Gaza Strip that threatened to destroy a precarious ceasefire, according to reports. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, personally oversaw the covert mission…